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iBooks Author: Good or Bad?

By on January 21, 2012 in Apple, Visualization

I’ve spent some time now, looking at the PROs and CONs of the the new Apple educational offerings, specifically the new Mac app iBooks Author, and am now starting to form some opinions, both good and bad. Here we go. First off, for those who don’t know about Apple’s recent text book creation tool, iBooks [...]

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Saving iPad Keynote files to DropBox

By on August 9, 2011 in Apple

As many of you know, exporting files from Apple’s Keynote presentation software in iPad can be a real pain. Especially if the files are large– because email clients and iPad tend to barf on files any larger than a couple Mbs. And, my presentations are typically at least 10Mbs, so the only solution has been [...]

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Is the Chromebook like a garage door opener?

By on July 3, 2011 in Apple, Other Stuff, Product Design

Early on in life, I stumbled upon the concept of threshold devices. This is a device or product which makes a task so much easier it actually changes your behavior. For instance, my first house had a garage with a door which I had to manually open and close. Because of this, I soon learned [...]

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Chromebook: First Impressions

By on June 20, 2011 in Apple, Other Stuff, Product Design

Recently, I purchased a Samsung Series 5 Arctic White 3G Model Chromebook. For those of you who don’t know, Chromebook is a notebook computer which runs Google’s Chrome OS and is for the most part just a Chrome browser in a notebook. I know, it sounds rather simple and not very exciting. But, knowing how [...]

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Another Notify Sketch

By on May 16, 2011 in Apple, Product Design, Visualization

I’m really liking the way this app works. It a really good sketch tool for iPad. It’s very easy to workout a quick design shape, then refine it with details. A transparent brush can create a quick marker effect. Posted via email from Chipp’s posterous

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